Re: Find it difficult to believe
It's not so difficult to believe...
The pads were used by embassies and such, as they often have a need to confer with home over a secure channel, knowing that anyone could be listening in on the conversation.
Spies would mostly try to avoid any situation whereeven part of the conversation could be captured, as not only the message, but also the sender and receiver would be secret.
OTPs and other codebooks is something you'd expect to find in an embassy or in the comms on a battleship, but not in someone's home. It's also very difficult to transfer a code books and OTPs to field agents without them being compromised.
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